I always find it interesting, in fact to me incredible, that as the author of this blog about the Barwise family, that in the space of my lifetime so much has happened in the world. For example, when I grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas, the only items that would qualify as technology were the radio and telephone. The phone was the "candlestick" type that sat on a small table in the hallway. I even remember the number after some 80 years: 5377. Up the street, in a house built by J.H. Barwise, the phone number there was 5055. Grandpa Barwise was dead and gone a long time by then--he died in 1927--but his daughter Lula Carrigan was living there with her husband Alfred, a successful lawyer. I enjoyed going there to visit as a child, because it was palatial compared with the house I lived in, itself very nice, I lived in just a block away at 909 Eleventh Street. I suppose you might call me the tail end of the Pioneer Family. No one had heard of TV or computers. That fact makes me glad to have lived so long. Just think what I would have missed
I will post much more of these thoughts and memories. Whom will they interest? Unsure. Certainly any of the people named Barwise. Anyone interested in the history of Wichita Falls. Those interested in history. I hope, too, that I can make it interesting enough to appeal to anyone who can read and do so on the Internet--undreamed of when I was a boy in Wichita Falls. hd
I always find it interesting, in fact to me incredible, that as the author of this blog about the Barwise family, that in the space of my lifetime so much has happened in the world. For example, when I grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas, the only items that would qualify as technology were the radio and telephone. The phone was the "candlestick" type that sat on a small table in the hallway. I even remember the number after some 80 years: 5377. Up the street, in a house built by J.H. Barwise, the phone number there was 5055. Grandpa Barwise was dead and gone a long time by then--he died in 1927--but his daughter Lula Carrigan was living there with her husband Alfred, a successful lawyer. I enjoyed going there to visit as a child, because it was palatial compared with the house I lived in, itself very nice, I lived in just a block away at 909 Eleventh Street. I suppose you might call me the tail end of the Pioneer Family. No one had heard of TV or computers. That fact makes me glad to have lived so long. Just think what I would have missed
ReplyDeleteI will post much more of these thoughts and memories. Whom will they interest? Unsure. Certainly any of the people named Barwise. Anyone interested in the history of Wichita Falls. Those interested in history. I hope, too, that I can make it interesting enough to appeal to anyone who can read and do so on the Internet--undreamed of when I was a boy in Wichita Falls. hd